Today's Famous Birthdays

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Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón
(21 February 1794 – 21 June 1876),

usually known as Santa Anna or López de Santa Anna, was a Mexican caudillo who served as
president of Mexico multiple times. He was a preeminent figure in Mexican politics to the point
that historians of Mexico often refer to three decades after Mexican independence as the
"Age of Santa Anna". He has been called "the Man of Destiny who loomed over his time like a
melodramatic colossus, the uncrowned monarch".

Santa Anna was in charge of the garrison at Veracruz at the time Mexican Independence was
won in 1821. He would go on to play a notable role in the fall of the First Mexican Empire, the
fall of the First Mexican Republic, the promulgation of the Constitution of 1835, the establishment
of the Centralist Republic of Mexico, the Texas Revolution, the Pastry War, the promulgation of the
Constitution of 1843, and the Mexican–American War. He became well known in the United States
due to his role in the Texas Revolution and in the Mexican–American War.










Count Hubert James Marcel Taffin de Givenchy
(20 February 1927 – 10 March 2018)

was a French aristocrat and fashion designer who founded the luxury fashion and perfume house of
Givenchy in 1952. He is famous for having designed much of the personal and professional wardrobe
of Audrey Hepburn and clothing for Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. He was named to the International
Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1970.










John Robert Lewis
(February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020)

was an American politician and civil rights activist who served in the United States House of
Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death in 2020. He
participated in the 1960 Nashville sit-ins, the Freedom Rides, was the chairman of the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1963 to 1966, and was one of the "Big Six"
leaders of groups who organized the 1963 March on Washington. Fulfilling many key roles in the
civil rights movement and its actions to end legalized racial segregation in the United States, in
1965 Lewis led the first of three Selma to Montgomery marches across the Edmund Pettus Bridge
where, in an incident which became known as Bloody Sunday, state troopers and police attacked
Lewis and the other marchers.











Scott Joseph Kelly
(born February 21, 1964)

is an American engineer, retired astronaut, and naval aviator. A veteran of four space flights, Kelly
commanded the International Space Station (ISS) on Expeditions 26, 45, and 46.

Kelly's first spaceflight was as pilot of Space Shuttle Discovery during STS-103 in December 1999.
This was the third servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, and lasted for just under eight days.
Kelly's second spaceflight was as mission commander of STS-118, a 12-day Space Shuttle mission to
the ISS in August 2007. Kelly's third spaceflight was as a crewmember on Expedition 25/26 on the
ISS. He arrived at the ISS aboard Soyuz TMA-01M on October 9, 2010, and served as a flight engineer
until he took over command of the station on November 25, 2010, at the start of Expedition 26.
Expedition 26 ended on March 16, 2011, with the departure of Soyuz TMA-01M.